Roger Bonair-Agard July 15, 2008

Roger Bonair-Agard puts the "amp" in slam poet. A native of Trinidad and Tobago and a Brooklyn resident for seventeen years, his work reflects the struggles of a man in voluntary exile in a conflicted 21st-century America. A two-time National Slam Champion who has stirred audiences from Germany to South Africa to Alaska, he is electrifying in performance, weaving living, breathing tapestries out of politics and the notion of home.